Gas-cock.



PATENTED DEC. 6, 1904.

W. TEVENDALE, JR.

GAS 000K. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 9, 1904.

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ATTORNEYS volving convenience and facility in operation, that theoperating part 20 is arranged with its axis coincident With the aXis ofthe'valve g and that the handle of the valve is one which projectslaterally from the valve, for the device can thus be operated easily byone hand, the second, third, and fourth fingers grasping the handle,While the thumb and the first finger manipulate the part w.

Having thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of a valve-casing, a rotary valve arranged in saidcasing, said valve having an aXial bore, a longitudinally-movablestop-pin arranged in the valve transversely thereof and adapted toprotrude therefrom, said valve-casing having a recess adapted to receivethe protruding portion of said stop pin, a rotary spindle arranged insaid bore and having enlargements at its ends forming bearings for saidspindle in the bore, a spiral spring coiled about said spindle betweenthe enlargements and having one end secured in said casing and the otherend in one of said enlargements, an eccentric-pin projectinglongitudinally from said spindle, said stop-pin having a lateral notchreceiving said pin, and means for normally retaining said spindle in thevalve With its pin engaged in the notch of the stop-pin, substantiallyas described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this6th day of June, 1904. a

WVILLIAM TEVENDALE, JR.

WVitnesses:

JOHN W. STEWARD, ROBERT J. POLLETT.

